Re: PostgreSQL port to pure Java? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Doug McNaught
Subject Re: PostgreSQL port to pure Java?
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL port to pure Java?  (Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar@myrealbox.com>)
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Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar@myrealbox.com> writes:

> Jokes and facts aside, I can't help it to think how better it would
> have been, if postgresql was in C++. We could easily plug multiple
> implementations of underlying subsystems without mucking much in base
> code..

That's easy to do in any language if your code is carefully designed
for it (look at the Linux kernel for an example in C) and hard to do
even in C++, if the design isn't suited.  So your assertion that C++
would have magically enabled "pluggabilty" doesn't hold water.

>   Wild thought anyways..

Indeed.

-Doug


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